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Chapter 10

C Pov

"I'll just be leaving. Amelie, thank you for looking after them," I said to my great-great-great grandmother.

"It was not difficult Claire. They are wonderful children," Amelie replied with a small smile. I knew that she was still upset about Sam's death. It was hard for her especially since she was so in love with him.

I snapped open a portal and looked over at Shane. "Do you want to use the portal, first?" I asked him with a gentle tone.

Shane didn't say a word; he was walked through the portal that would take him back to his room in Glass House. I sighed as the portal vanished. I felt terribly sorry for Shane, he was stuck having his two children hate him to death.

I looked down at Sam and Elizabeth and saw that the two of them were tired. I wondered what would happen to them if that nightmare, really did come true. I closed my eyes and opened another portal for the three of us to take to get home. As soon as the coordinates were locked, I walked through while having a twin each attached to my hips.

As we got through to the other side of the portal, I looked around the room. This wasn't my living room. I quickly wondered why I was standing in the middle of the Glass House living room.

I shook my head in confusion and opened another portal, only it didn't open. I tired again only to have the same result. I let out a huff before gently putting Sam and Elizabeth down on the couch. I went into the kitchen and looked out the window wondering what was going on.

I saw that dawn was breaking which meant that I would be staying here all day. I sighed before I decided that I may as well start making coffee for the others. I pulled out the ingredients and started to coffee into the filter and waited for the water to get warm enough to start making coffee.

I didn't really pay attention to what was going on around me, instead I just thought about how awful my birthday had been. I wondered if Myrnin was right about avoiding Richard.

Richard had always been a good friend to me. Elizabeth and Sam both loved him to pieces as if he was their own father. I did care about him deeply but would he really stab me in the back and try to kill me. But why would he kill me? There had to be a reason but Richard had always been a good friend, so why would he kill me? I sat at the table and wondered about that until I heard the kitchen door swing open.

"Claire, what are you doing here? And why are Elizabeth and Sam sleeping on the couch?" I heard a voice ask.

I looked up to see that Michael was leaning against the kitchen counter with his arms crossed. I rolled my eyes before answering.

"The portals aren't really working right now."

"They aren't working?" Michael asked his voice full of alarm.

"Nope, you can try. I've tried, four times and nothing!" I said while giving him a shrug of confusion.

"Let me try," Michael said.

I nodded my head to give him the go ahead. I could usually tell when another portal was being put to use but in this case…. Nothing. Zip, zero, nada. What was going on with the network? I wondered if I would have to see Myrnin.

"Anything?" I asked, with a little hope that he had gotten anything to work.

"No, I wonder if it's blocked," Michael said.

"It shouldn't be. I saw Myrnin last night. There wouldn't be a reason for him to shut down the network unless…" A terrible thought suddenly occurred to me.

I looked up at Michael to see that a similar thought appeared to him. Together we both ran out of the kitchen. He ran upstairs to probably tell Eve, what was going on. Just as Michael walking down the stairs, Shane was walking out of his room.

"Michael what's going on?" Shane asked.

"Nothing you need to worry about. Will you Sam and Lizzie? Claire and I need to go out. We'll be back soon but we need you and Eve to watch them," Michael said as we both started to walk out the door.

"Yeah, sure," Shane said his voice already confused.

"They'll be on their best behavior. And there's coffee in the coffee pot. See you later Shane," I said as Michael and I ran at vampire speed out the door towards the garage.

As soon as we were in the garage, I waited for Michael to unlock his SUV. He looked over at me from the across the top of the car, I was standing on the step railing of the car.

"You don't really think that anything happened do you?" Michael asked his voice grave.

"I don't know. I just hope that nothing has happened to him," I reply with fear in my voice that something could have happened to Myrnin.

Sorry, to leave you at cliff hanger. Come back for chapter 11!